Ilkhchi IAU IRC Team to Compete in RoboCup 2017

7/26/2017 12:09:09 AM

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 00:09

The Ilkhchi team will compete in the 21st edition of RoboCup 2017 in Nagoya, Japan in July 22-28, 2017.

According to ANA, one of the most significant part of the competition is the RoboCup Humanoid League, where autonomous robots with a human-like body form and human-like senses play soccer against each other. In the tournaments of this league, technical challenges take place alongside the actual football game. Dynamic walking, running, and kicking the ball while maintaining balance, visual perception of the ball, other players, and the field, self-localization, and team play are among the many research issues investigated in the Humanoid League.

The Ilkhchi IAU IRC team is the only representative of the country's academic community in this event. Artin, the Soccer Humanoid robot which was designed by Ilkhchi IAU researchers, took 3rd place in Soccer Humanoid League in Leipzig, Germany and 1st place in RoboCup IranOpen 2015 in Tehran, Iran.

In this regard, the team’s advisor, Dr. Arash Ranjbaran, appreciated the strong support of Dr. Angaji, head of East Azerbaijan branch.

RoboCup is used as a vehicle to promote robotics and AI research, by offering a publicly appealing, but formidable challenge. It aims at being one of the grand challenges shared by the robotics and AI communities for the next 50 years. This year's edition will host teams from Germany, USA, Japan, Portugal, Netherlands, Mexico, China, South Korea, United Kingdom, Brazil, Turkey and Iran.